Still didnt bother to investigate him i think weve seen time and time again over the last he is our intelligence agencies across the west dropping the ball in terms of getting tips being aware of potential threats and not following up on those threats and you to take advantage of measures it seems lessons not being learned they need to have a proper view about you know what exactly are the threats what are they trying to do how can they best protect the people of that country to protect against these threats and that doesnt seem to be done its not like these federal Law Enforcement agencies are lazy just recently we heard from the f. B. I. That Chinese ForeignExchange Students are a threat to National Security we also have federal agencies urging us not to buy chinese brand cellphones and more recently congress renewed the power of the n. S. A. To wiretap and spy on american citizens some might come to the conclusion that its not incompetence or a lack of effort the issue is rather the type of threat these agencies are choosing to focus on cable. R t new york. A Palestinian School teacher has been left scarred of to being mauled by an israeli army dog word of warning you may find some of the following scenes upsetting my book gerar was assaulted during a west bank raid by Israeli Defense forces they were searching for another man altogether the alleged killer of an israeli man who bears the same surname as gerard if we can start to show you the extent of the injuries sustained during the Morning School teachers expected to require further treatment including a skin graft to one of his arms its also been left with a leg injury. Other than the sort i woke up when i heard explosions i looked at my house door and it had been destroyed by an i. D. F. Bomb and after that there were several other explosions that destroyed the windows and damaged the house i went immediately to my childrens room and we gathered after that there was another explosion that destroyed the bedroom door i saw a dog it started to attack me and bite my shoulder and then it started to bite my leg and i was screaming. The Palestinian School teacher was allegedly attacked in front of his children and wife. Certainly and this incident has had a psychological factor on my husband my children and myself i am staring at this hospital where then and i see him waking up at night shaking and trembling of years the eldest son also wakes up screaming about his that and the little one is waiting the bad it was a terrifying experience the dog attacked my husband for over seven minutes and i try to help him defend my husband by grabbing the dogs had what i couldnt get away from him. We asked the i. D. F. A comment on the case spawned by saying that gerard previously threatened civilians in jewish majority areas of the west bank also told us the raid was conducted in accordance with standard procedures and that geralt was immediately given medical treatment but he disputes that saying he had to wait for treatment. Afterward i was bleeding for more than two and a half hours and they took me to the hospital i note that i only got treatment at the hospital itself not from the i. D. F. Or for journeys Max Blumenthal says the use of dogs is standard i. D. F. Policy. This you know is being cast by the Israeli Military and government as kind of an isolated incident but as any of us who follow the situation in the west bank know this is far from isolated its part of a clear policy of using dogs as kind of an advance team during home raids of palestinians there is also a high profile case in twenty fifteen of a sixteen year old from the southern town of beit omar also a town thats under pressure from from jewish settlers where he his home was raided by an israeli dog unit this is a sixteen year old named him he was badly mauled by a dog you know these dogs apply two thousand pounds of pressure per square inch and Israeli Soldiers were taunting him on video theres actually video of this incident and now he. And the Palestinian Human Rights Group are suing not israel but actually the Dutch Company for winds canine which supplied those dogs and has supplied what it calls biting dogs to the Israeli Military for violating u. N. Conventions on Companies Operating in conflict zones so this is a very significant lawsuit and it speaks to a wider policy of what the israeli dissident journalist gideon levy calls lynching by dog it would take decades to clear the iraqi city of mosul of an exploded bones according to a new u. N. Report that story after the break. Thank. You. Looking at russians arent so different from their european neighbors when it comes to individual rights and freedoms however they do have a very low tolerance for uncertainty in politics that translates into a strong electoral advantage for the incumbent making power transition. For russians to stop playing it safe politically. Back the Ice Hockey Team from russia has. Progressed to the quarterfinals of the Winter Olympics. Chang forest joined fans for the build up to that much. Tonights the night of the biggest event so far of the young tang twenty eight seeing if you dont know what that is just yet and a second it will be written all over my face. Seem usa versus team oh we are and on. That. Well donald trump and Vladimir Putin watched this game yeah i think so what do you think donald trump will do if he sees a gold being scored by the o a r team read about it. Because you know russia will write this girl see why you know what shes talking down guys will you hate russia tonight id love for sure im actually looking for and im actually coming making my first ever visit to russia for the world cup this summer while that is great even though the u. S. Are not taking the not really taken apart i want to russia the game is sold out and even though its just a Group Stage Match the talents online outside the stadium are reselling tickets at exorbitant prices he think john supporting one of the sides in this one. If i had to take a guess what it is a the u. S. Russia i believe rush do you think donald trump and a lot of opponent will be watching that i really hope so got out like what else are they doing. Come on what happened this is so much fun you know you say. You know you have a trego r. C. Right outside the ice hockey arena and beyond chang right before the number one. Well the week. Well lets stay with hockey because this saturday the womens team from russia beat their swiss rivals and for the first time in history made it to the semifinals of the Winter Olympics that despite the fact the four key team players didnt even receive an invitation to the competition from the i. O. C. Actually the russian players had to overcome a wave of criticism back home especially after losing to the United States but they put their defeat behind them and theyve now set their sights on a podium finish. And to the news a u. N. Report says that unexploded bombs were littered the iraqi city of mosul for decades to come and could in dangerous civilians complexity of clearance work for because many of the explosives are buried under an estimated eleven million tons of rubble the u. N. Mine Action Service is Senior Program manager compared the situation in the city to that following world war two. Become so explosive a house it is very and it is of unseen previously on the sea in proportions in terms of the contamination that we experience it is a mixture of coalition ammunition that has been fired and that has failed to function we are still made that least ten percent of that a mission. That has five been fired has failed to function we also find that ice is a mission that has been fired has failed to function but with higher failure rates in addition to that we also find improvised explosive devices different types of explosive improvised explosive devices with different fusing systems all in common a combination with rubble a high degree of rubble we estimate eleven million tons of rubble in western mosul at least. And in general very difficult conditions to work under. It is a situation very similar to after the Second World War of course what we are doing right now is that we are clearing were serving and we are clearing Critical Infrastructure but still off to maybe twenty years maybe even longer there will still be explosive contamination. It is almost impossible to say we havent got the school of contamination in mosul yet we havent been to all locations but it is a question of years and until everything has been cleared it is probably more than ten years the vast sum needed to restore and rebuild the country is estimated at eighty eight billion dollars thats according to iraqs government for the global aid pledging conference in kuwait only thirty billion was race the u. S. Led coalition started its campaign in two hundred sixteen but its been bedded in the kind of his way back in two thousand and three washington itself as price just three of the eighty billion dollars said to be needed for reconstruction and that wasnt even direct Financial Assistance rather the money was loans and financing to help american firms invest in the country. Much work remains to rebuild iraq and modernize its. The signal is strong. And iraq wins through files all sides of a three billion dollar member of the understand but dont like an episode of the announcement by the Us Government representative in the kuwait conference was clear that they will not provide anything except perhaps some investment in iraq lot we believe that the Iraqi Government with all its political factions should have joined forces and demanded to play him on it and it logically just brings you right up to that thanks for staying with a saving my colleague Kate Partridge will be here at the top of the. Everybody im stephen both test hollywood guy suspects every proud american first of all im just george bush and r. V. To say this is my buddy max famous financial guru well just a little bit different on this day. You know with those up with all the drama happening in our country im shooting the good have fun every day americans. Hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the Great American people. On. 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So they have all this season is going to practices the pressure oppressive measures being deployed against the Palestinian People have to do with the said political journalism the theft of all of the land and the many many. You know to stating things that this woman who does and doing of course the gun cools thats the focal uprising. Popes and. He put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president and you. Want to be. The two going to be the person who said what will befall three in the morning cant be good. Im interested always in the waters of. Course. Ive played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. Football isnt only about what happens on the pitch put the final school its about the passion from the fans its the age of the superman ija kill the narrowness and spending two hundred twenty million on one player. So its an experience like nothing else i want to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy a great so one more chance for. The base this minute. Time after time they were going underground as in battle u. K. Minority government leader theresa may spells out dangers to nato want to stage it the Munich Security Conference coming up on the show could have forced resignation of president Jacob Zuma Herald the end of the new liberal Mandela Legacy in south africa we investigate major nation looting of africas financially richest country and the Doomsday Clock ticks ever closer to Nuclear Armageddon we speak to the unofficial war artist beating cannot be head of c. N. D. About trump north korea and sixty years of the campaign the Nuclear Disarmament classes london streets turning to catwalk for london the fashion week iconic design a danger zone broods on with a wreck that may spell the end of any future Cool Britannia as all the civil war going on today is going underground but first its no surprise that when it comes to enemies todays munich speech by theresa may will name check russia shes done it before russia has fermented conflict in the dawn by us repeatedly violated the National Airspace of several European Countries and mounted a sustained campaign of Cyber Espionage and disruption. This is included meddling in elections and hacking the Danish Ministry of defense and put them to stark among many others. It is seeking to weaponize information deploying state run media organizations to plant fake stories and photo shopped images in an attempt to sell discord in the west anyone seeing wednesdays episode of going underground will have seen the ambassador of the Russian Federation to the u. K. Deny serious allegations like that made by britains minority government leader let alone allegations like these from the head of the cia will be in germany today it seems that the world is stunned that the russians are trying to to poke their hand into the us elections and polls because this is not a new phenomenon the technology is different the tools that they use are different but this was a threat in twenty six it will be a threat in the midterm elections and twenty eighty will be a threat in two thousand and twenty until theres a new leader in russia i suspect it will be a threat to the United States for an awfully long time well arguably that kool aid is certainly being drunk by another european leader who this week appears to have threatened unilateral action in syria here is damning the journalists at this t. V. Channel really shows. This are going to close this on at least. The propaganda it a pop i dont need any more of course millions around the world may disagree with president macklemore about his idea of what journalism is especially when it comes to french criminal colonialism in africa while british media has focused on its old colony of south africa this week the state of africa its continued looting by new liberal institutions goes virtually unheard in nato nation media this while the ordinary peoples of nato nations generously donate to charities charities which in the u. K. Have now been revealed to be less than perfect will have more on charity from save the children on Mondays Program but joining me now from Port Elizabeth is someone who works for Nelson Mandela patrick baum professor political of. Economy at the university of waters and school of governance in johannesburg how do you characterize the talk left walk right policies of successive and c. Governments not alone that of jacob zuma as he said and boasted of millions now connected to electricity and ninety five percent with access to clean water well thats the claim and there are many such claims of development the problem is because near the broad water policy exists that means you can put pipes in but if you cant afford the water that goes through the pipes the taps you turn them on and nothing comes out and thats two thirds of those ninety five percent and others theres been a lot of sort of delivery of capital goods but its the operating and maintenance expenses where theyre trying to do Cost Recovery in a neo liberal way you know like the corporations demand many french Water Companies are trying their luck but people are too poor we have about a sixty five percent poverty rate and that means people really have to illegally reconnect with electricity connect wires and so at about eighty percent of the people are reconnected illegally thats because these services are priced too high so even if theyre delivered they may not be accessible. Of course the talk left war great rhetoric increased from president zuma from time to time the how serious no others other practitioners of that rhetoric the south African Federation of trade unions and of course the Economic Freedom fighters who appeared to be talking like mandela when he was fighting the guerrilla war oh thats right and the traditions in a way of the freedom charter of nationalizing the banks mines monopoly capital thats really well expressed through the Economic Freedom fighters the second Opposition Party getting about nine ten percent support and then as you say the south African Federation of trade unions especially with the Metal Workers so thats basically the big left thats going to keep an eye on. And yes this is always easy to talk left when youre out of power and when you have to run a government under the constraints of power blocs like local capital and Global Capital and global imperial power then it does get tricky and the dilemma is if youve got a big nationalist movement that got rid of apartheid and you prestigious amongst the township activists the rural people its slow but pretty sure that you waste that as we saw with jacob zuma and taba mbeki and even Nelson Mandela and heres the dilemma that means that they especially especially jacob zuma the last few weeks have been blaming the west generically never specific and they say look because we brought south africa to the brics the west is trying to even assassinate to physically poison jacob zuma thats his personal claim he was poisoned he did get treatment in russia he recovered and its one of those moments where the talk left in the and time period his rhetoric really reached quite a peak but it didnt really confuse the society too much and as you see in theyve just knocked jacob zuma out of power sort of course the candidate the darling of big business has just moved in to the presidency because your university is located in the in the city which will host the bric summit this year in the summer. Some people saying that brazil of the b. Of bricks is already gone before was the i. A. S. It lists the government the serial rebel pows or dizzy going to say thats going to be interesting at the bric summit well you know hes got these connections to western capital and of course shan duke a company that he ran was often in competition both with the big. Multinationals to go and corps and the b. H. P. Billiton as an anglo coles the big boys but he found working relationships with them for example he was the top investor in lawmen and there was a tragedy where he emailed a request for police pointed response against the astrally criminals and the next day it was american a massacre of the law men strikers in two thousand and twelve very tragic event but you know that background for sure of course included lots of illicit financial flows western tax havens its interesting as to whether hell adapt in other words find not only the friends in western capital as hes well regarded World Economic forum and all the rest but also make his move towards brics and the tricky thing is brics isnt particularly coherent right now you have to render modi also connected very tightly to Donald Trumps regime theyre hugging their greeting theyre doing pentagon and Indian Military deals or israel is a common connection. Russia and china have been in the news here because the Russian Nuclear sales were very controversial sauron opposed to oppose them recently and they probably wont go through your pay to get context which arguably could encourage people in the world bank of the i. M. F. Just remind us about the legacy of those two institutions as opposed to brics in south africa and of course africa more widely well indeed thats why the Brics New Development Bank which has a new Africa RegionalCenter Branch in sandton in the financial district although its empty there hasnt been any activity they would be promising in theory because the world bank has a disastrous record they were promoting lawman corp. Sort of responsibility they were part of the cash grant system was very controversial for exploiting poor people they made the biggest loan in their history here big coal fired power plant which was corrupt through hitachi and the local a. N. C. Fundraising arm and you know they learned to apartheid they provided post apartheid macroeconomic advice which was highly neoliberal very very unfortunate record the i. M. F. As well they led to apartheid and then their first loan to the new government it was actually just before the new government came in in ninety three locked in the neoliberal conditions that are unpopular there are plenty of people in this country ready for a break from the i. M. F. And World Bank Just tell me why the call me is in south africa back Cyril Ramaphosa rather than say the Economic Freedom fighters you obviously want a much bigger break than even bricks maybe oh thats right the fed has said theyre marxist leninist phenomena so are the friends for nontraditional the communist party comes from a slightly more soviet centered tradition because they had strong support from the also that union so often the phrase stalinist is use i think that may be unfair but that means their tradition is often connected to the National Liberation movement theyre very tied in as actually were the Economic Freedom fighters before they had a break in two thousand and thirteen now the critical thing is the communist party knows that sauron of course who theyve backed the head of jacob zuma is coming from an extreme capitalist standpoint but i think thats better than the corruption riddled zuma with his control family called the gupta family now those guys are on the run theyre literally being chased as we speak the communist party deserves some credit as is the congress of South African trade unions still the largest federation still connected to the a. N. C. But they very clearly said theres no honeymoon for storm of course and the big test is when the finance minister delivers the budget which is next wednesday and in that budget moodys the big new york Credit Rating agency is anticipated to put very strong pressure to cut the budget deficit probably by raising the value added tax probably by cutting social grants. Possibly by even breaking the promise of free Tertiary Education that zuma made just before he was. Kicked out and thats the dilemma the austerity thats coming down the pike with this high foreign debt very high Interest Rates much lower growth less than one percent anticipated this year and that means when you squeeze harder your possibility of a state driven bottom up economy also shrinks and it may be that rome of course is inadvertently gotten the Team Together especially with the Credit Rating agencies right over his shoulder that will dig in deeper into a hole by the time of the election next april may june when they have the next election for president he may really regret having gone the neo liberal route any possibility that the poverty created by new liberalism in the ongoing austerity may mark a return to the sort of extreme violence advocated by Nelson Mandela where yes now mandela very specifically when he turned from the nonviolent mass struggle in the early sixtys was directing targeted sabotage against the facilities of oppression what weve seen since roughly fifteen twenty years rising township protests where unfortunately many of the social activists in their communities have been so frustrated theyve not only blockaded roads burned tires but theyve taken on municipal buildings even burning libraries and schools these are tactics and they appear very violent period that the townships are burning but i think actually the real danger to the system will come when these link up and develop a bigger political agenda well see if that happens on the far left the Economic Freedom fighters south African Federation a trade unions a united front or whether it continues to be fragmented or sporadic and part of that will be whether Cyril Ramaphosa revives his old left wing heroic stance he was a Great Trade Union leader and can put down these protests and promise and divide and conquer and thats a tradition of they and see theyve done it well they may not be able to continue given the contradictions because of hadron thank you after the break. Sixty is the date of the campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was founded we speak to one of britains great just fine artists peter kenalog about why his work for the organization is more relevant than ever and with london opening its doors to this Seasons Fashion week iconic design a dames on the roads suggests brooks it may be anything but fashionable over the bowl coming up odd to him going on the ground. Third